WebRender newsletter #11

Newsletter #11 is finally here, even later than usual due to an intense week in Austin where all of Mozilla’s staff and a few independent contributors gathered, followed by yours truly taking two weeks off.

Our focus before the Austin allhands was on performance, especially on Windows. We had some great results out of this and are shifting priorities back to correctness issues for a little while.

Hi Nical
I still like the newsletter and all that you do. And I still like testing WebRender.
I’m not complaining but… I don’t know if you know about this problem but… after pausing Youtube video… all the buttons under the progress bar show up red and may flash also the other videos other right side of the video website.. there time is red and may flash to also… gray square blink over the right arrow, the search button and the three Firefox Nightly buttons in the upper right corner as if… painted layers was enabled . And painted layers is not enabled. And last there is a black rectangle underneath the time on the playing video. Then I don’t why but when you play the video after pausing it… and you diagonally brush over the problems all but a black rectangle gets turned on and off. And I don’t know why this is happening. And I don’t know why or how to get rid of the black rectangle. Thank you

Great work ! I was wondering, is it possible / doable to run WebRender without window manager, directly on top of DRM/GBM in order to implement a window manager with it (or to use it in embedded systems that don’t have X11/Wayland) ?

WebRender doesn’t know about the windowing layer, it mostly interacts with OpenGL using an already-provided context (the embedder is responsible for loading the gl functions etc.). So I suppose in theory you should be able to cook up something like that, as long as you can provided WebRender with a functional OpenGL context.

I still like the newsletter And I still like testing WebRender.
I’m not complaining but…please if can fix the the black and red flashing elements a.s.a.p thank you. I get the black and red flashing elements to. thank you